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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) annual report on 2023-24 data

Our report, published in March 2025, presents the key findings on the health checks and outcomes for children and young people with diabetes mellitus in England, Wales and Jersey. It covers the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. It aims to understand what proportion of patients seen in pa...

Diabetes

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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) Hospital admissions and complications reports 2011-2020

The NPDA admission reports summarise acute emergency hospital admissions where the primary diagnosis is related to diabetes in children and young people cared for in Paediatric Diabetes Units (PDUs) in England and Wales.

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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) spotlight audit reports

Our spotlight audits give context to the findings of the NPDA national reports. They provide insight into everyday practice and explore how this may be related to outcome. The spotlight audits do not, for the most part, measure practice against any particular set of standards but instead highligh...

Diabetes

Workforce

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National Reviews of Maternity and Neonatal Care: Supporting the perinatal team to implement recommendations - report

This report, originally published in June 2023 and revised in August 2023, offers guidance to help local and network perinatal teams in implementing recommendations from the national reviews of maternity and neonatal care. It covers four themes: family experience, neonatal workforce, safety and lear...

Neonatal medicine

Quality improvement

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National standards for children and young people's engagement in health services

Our five standards support NHS clinical and non-clinical staff to develop and deliver meaningful opportunities for engagement, and cover: Trust and rights, Inclusive, Practical arrangements, Community reach and Take action.

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

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National strategy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse in Wales 2025-35 - consultation response

In October 2025, we responded to a Welsh Government consultation on its draft 10-year national strategy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse in Wales.

Health policy

Safeguarding

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New features on Digital Growth Charts

On 23 June 2022, RCPCH hosted a live demonstration to highlight new features on the RCPCH Digital Growth Charts platform. Dr Simon Chapman led this session to outline core features and capabilities, mostly aimed at clinicians to improve user experience. You can watch the video here.

Community child health

General paediatrics

Digital growth charts

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New measures for urgent and emergency care in England - consultation response

In February 2021 we responded, with the Association of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, to a consultation from NHS England and Improvement on proposals to replace the 4-hour target for care in emergency departments.

Emergency medicine

Service design

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NHS 10 Year Health Plan - insights from RCPCH workshops

In late 2024 and early 2025, the College held workshops with our members, with children and young people and with stakeholders in the health research sector in order to respond to the UK Government's 'workshop in a box' community engagement project, aimed at shaping the NHS 10 Year Health Plan in En...

Engaging children and young people

Health policy

Research

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NHS 10 Year Health Plan - overarching policy briefing

We called on all RCPCH members in England to input into the 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS, both via the Change NHS Portal and through any Trust or regional opportunities. This was an opportunity to make the case for children and the child health workforce to be at the centre of plans for the NHS. ...

Service design

Integrated care

Workforce